I'm working on a game that is both strategic and real-time, but isn't an RTS in a traditional sense (like Starcraft). A single playthrough will take you about 15 minutes, if you're good. But the next one will be different. And another one as well.

I love the art style, like from a old medicine book. The concept is also nice, i wouldnt come up with something like this haha. I voted already on greenlight and hope it works out Also, shouldn't this be on showcase? It looks finished and for sure is not a toy project or tool.

As a part of ongoing polish work I wanted to animate bugs' death somehow. Here's how it looked like recently:

It just disappears. Not very cool!I just got an idea how I want it to look like and I implemented it.

The effect actually consists of 4 parts:1. A dying insect breaks down into a few parts.2. There's a simple particle effect on top. 3. A stain is created underneath. It is animated, so it "spills" from the insect.4. The dead parts attract other small insects, which feed on such carcasses.

The 4th part needs a little bit more work, but I'm quite satisfied how it all turned out.

A week ago my computer stopped working (beware of thunderstorms, guys!). I was unable to even turn it on... I spent two days digging inside and it turned out that my motherboard and hdd died. Not that bad! I was afraid I'd have to replace all of the parts, which would be a financial problem (especially since I don't want to run any preorders nor a Kickstarter campaign). I bought and installed a new motherboard, reinstalled Windows (sigh...) and I'm ready to work!Fortunately I had quite recent backups, I lost just an evening's worth of work on Prophour23. The bad part is that I made almost no progress this week. I just started to work on a proper main menu screen, here's a sneak peek:

A week ago my computer stopped working (beware of thunderstorms, guys!). I was unable to even turn it on...

wow! In my statistics you're quite unlucky, though... Lightning struck in a friend of mine's garden (~10m away from his desk) while he had his PC turned on. He said he heard noise on his headphones, but nothing's broken for him...

I've had lightening strike nearby outside, I was listening to music on my earphones at the time, and the one in my left ear was shot out of my ear with a (to me) loud bang and blueish-white flash of light in my peripheral vision. Scared the shit out me. Amazingly it wasn't broken either.

I'm working hard on Prophour23 and I can see the finish line now. Not much left! The game's about 95% done. I need to finish the final scene and I'm waiting for one more music track - and that's it!I'm also looking into integrating Steamworks features that would make sense in Prophour23. I like Achievements and Steam Cloud, so these will be probably implemented.

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